WALTER D. KOENIG
Address Hastings Reservation
38601 E. Carmel Valley Rd.
Carmel Valley, CA 93924
email: wdk4@cornell.edu
Born 1950, US citizen
Married
to Janis L. Dickinson; 2 children
Education and job experience
2016- Graduate School
Cornell University, and Visiting Fellow,
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
2008-
2008-16 Senior Scientist, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Department of
Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
1982-2008 Research Zoologist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
University of California, Berkeley and Adjunct Professor
Department of Integrative Biology
1981-82 Assistant
Professor and Curator, Moore Laboratory of Zoology,
Occidental
College, Los Angeles, California
1978-81 Postdoctoral
Research Zoologist, Museum of Vertebrate
Zoology,
University of California, Berkeley
1972-78 Graduate
Student, University of California, Berkeley.
Ph.D.
in Zoology, December 1978
1968-72 Undergraduate,
Stanford University, B.S. in Biology, June 1972
Academic and professional honors
2016 Lloye and Alden Miller Award, Cooper Ornithological Society
(for
citation, see The Condor 118: [2016])
2002 Honorary Member, Cooper
Ornithological Society
(for
citation, see The Condor
105: 175 [2003])
1999 William Brewster Memorial
Award, American Ornithologists’ Union
(for
citation, see The Auk
117: 265-266 [2000])
1998 Fellow, California Academy of
Sciences
1998 Visiting
Researcher, spatial ecology program, University of Helsinki
1988 Fellow, American Ornithologists' Union
1988 Fulbright Fellowship (Cambridge, UK)
1982 Elective Member, American
Ornithologists' Union
Selected grants and fellowships
2015 NSF research grant (Evolution of cooperative behavior)
2009 NSF research grant (Reproductive fitness and sharing in cooperative societies)
2008, 2013 NSF
research grant (LTREB: Phenology and masting in California oaks)
2006 NSF
research grant (Ecological factors affecting group living)
2006 Integrated
Hardwoods Range Management Program, UC Berkeley (Factors Affecting Valley and Blue Oak Regeneration in upper
Carmel Valley, California)
1977-78 Annie
M. Alexander Fellowship, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
1975-78 NSF
Predoctoral aid-to-dissertation Grant
1972-75 NSF
Graduate Fellowship.
Major service positions
International
Society for Behavioral Ecology, Secretary 1992-94; Treasurer 2000-2016
Organized
biennial meeting, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 1998
Council,
American Ornithologists’ Union, 1999-2001
Editor, The Condor, 1995-2000
Associate Editor, Ecography, 2005-2009
Associate Editor, Ethology, 2012-
Associate Editor, Ecology/Ecological Monographs , 2005 - 2017
Board of
Directors, Cooper Ornithological Society, 1992-1995
Editor, California
Acorn Report, 1997 -
Fields of research
Reproductive
strategies of forest trees; spatial synchrony; spatial patterns; conservation
biology; behavioral ecology; ornithology; population ecology; vertebrate social
behavior; dispersal, mating systems, and sexual selection.
Not-so-distant past publications (2007- )
More-or-less current publications (2015- )
PUBLICATIONS OF WALTER D. KOENIG
Books
1. Koenig, W. D. and R. L. Mumme. 1987. Population Ecology of the
Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker. xiii+435 pp. Monographs in Population Biology 24, Princeton
University Press, Princeton, NJ.
2. Stacey, P. B. and W. D. Koenig (editors). 1990. Cooperative Breeding
in Birds: Long-term Studies of Ecology and Behavior. xviii+615 pp. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
3. Koenig, W. D.
and J. L. Dickinson (editors). 2004. Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative
Breeding in Birds.
ix+293 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
4. Koenig, W. D. and J. L. Dickinson (editors). 2016. Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates: Studies of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. x+379 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Technical articles
1. Gutièrrez, R. J. and W. D. Koenig. 1978. Characteristics of storage trees
used by acorn woodpeckers in two California woodlands. Journal of Forestry 76: 162-164.
2. Koenig,
W. D. and P. L.
Williams. 1979. Notes on the status of acorn woodpeckers in central Mexico. Condor 81: 317-318.
3. Koenig,
W. D. and F. A. Pitelka.
1979. Relatedness and inbreeding avoidance: counterploys in the communally
nesting acorn woodpecker. Science
206: 1103-1105.
4. Koenig,
W. D. 1980. The
determination of runt eggs in birds. Wilson Bulletin 92: 103-107.
5. Koenig,
W. D. 1980. The
incidence of runt eggs in woodpeckers.Wilson Bulletin 92: 169-176.
6. Koenig,
W. D. 1980. Variation
and age determination in a population of acorn woodpeckers. Journal of Field
Ornithology 51: 10-16.
7. Davis, J., W.
D. Koenig and P. L.
Williams. 1980. Birds of Hastings Reservation, Monterey County California. Western
Birds 11:113-128.
8. Koenig,
W. D. 1980. Acorn
storage by acorn woodpeckers in an oak woodland: an energetics analysis. Pp.
265-269 in Symposium on the Ecology, Management, and Utilization of
California Oaks (T. R.
Plumb, technical coordinator) Pacific SW Forest & Range Exp. Station Gen.
Tech. Rep. PSW44.
9. Williams, P.
L. and W. D. Koenig.
1980. Water dependence of birds in a temperate oak woodland. Auk 97: 339-350.
10. Koenig, W. D.
1981. Space competition in the acorn woodpecker: power struggles in a
cooperative breeder. Animal Behaviour 29: 396-409.
11. Koenig, W. D. 1981. Reproductive success, group size, and the evolution
of cooperative breeding in the acorn woodpecker. American Naturalist 117: 421-443.
12. Koenig, W. D.,
and F. A. Pitelka. 1981. Ecological factors and kin selection in the evolution
of cooperative breeding in birds. Pp. 261-280 in Natural Selection and
Social Behavior: Recent Research and New Theory (R. D. Alexander and D. W. Tinkle,
editors) Chiron Press, New York.
13. Koenig, W. D.
1981. Coalitions of male lions: making the best of a bad job? Nature 293: 413.
14. Koenig, W. D. 1982. Ecological and social factors affecting hatchability
of eggs. Auk
99:526-536.
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15. Joste, N. E., W. D. Koenig, R. L. Mumme and F. A. Pitelka. 1982.
Intragroup dynamics of a cooperative breeder: an analysis of reproductive roles
in the acorn woodpecker. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 11: 195-201.
16. Koenig, W. D., R. L. Mumme, and F. A. Pitelka. 1983. Female roles in
cooperatively breeding acorn woodpeckers. Pp. 235-261 in Social Behavior of
Female Vertebrates (S.
K. Wasser, editor) Academic Press, New York.
17. Mumme, R. L., W. D. Koenig and F. A. Pitelka. 1983. Mate-guarding
in the acorn woodpecker: within-group reproductive competition in a cooperative
breeder. Animal Behaviour
31:1094-1106.
18. Mumme, R. L., W. D. Koenig and F. A. Pitelka. 1983. Are acorn
woodpecker territories aggregated? Ecology 64: 1305-1307.
19. Mumme, R. L., W. D. Koenig and F. A. Pitelka. 1983. Reproductive
competition in the communal acorn woodpecker: sisters destroy each other's
eggs. Nature 306:
583-584.
20. Koenig, W. D.
1984. Clutch size of the gilded flicker. Condor 86: 89-90.
21. Koenig, W. D.,
R. L. Mumme and F. A. Pitelka. 1984. The breeding system of the acorn
woodpecker in central coastal California. Zeitshrift für Tierpsychologie 65: 289-308.
22. Koenig, W. D. 1984. Geographic variation in clutch size in the northern
flicker (Colaptes auratus ): support for Ashmole's hypothesis. Auk 101: 698-706.
23. Mumme, R. L., W. D. Koenig, R. M. Zink and J. A. Marten. 1985. An
analysis of genetic variation and parentage in a California population of acorn
woodpeckers. Auk 102:
305-312.
24. Koenig, W. D.
and S. S. Albano.1985. Patterns of territoriality and mating success in the
white-tailed skimmer Plathemis lydia (Odonata: Anisoptera). American Midland Naturalist 114: 1-12.
25. Koenig, W. D.
1985. Dunking of prey by Brewer's blackbirds: a novel source of water for
nestlings. Condor 87:
444-445.
26. Hannon, S. J., R. L. Mumme, W. D. Koenig and F. A. Pitelka.1985. Replacement of
breeders and within-group conflict in the cooperatively breeding acorn
woodpecker. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 17: 303-312.
27. Moore, W. S. and W. D. Koenig. 1986. Comparative reproductive success
of yellow-shafted, red-shafted and hybrid flickers across a hybrid zone. Auk 103: 42-51.
28. Koenig, W. D.
and S. S. Albano. 1986. On the measurement of sexual selection. American
Naturalist 127: 403-409.
29. Koenig, W. D.
1986. Geographic ecology of clutch size variation in North American
woodpeckers. Condor
88: 499-504.
30. Hannon, S. J., R. L. Mumme, W. D. Koenig, S. Spon and F. A. Pitelka. 1987. Poor
acorn crop, dominance, and decline in numbers of acorn woodpeckers. Journal
of Animal Ecology 56:
197-207.
31. Koenig, W. D.
and S. S. Albano. 1987. Lifetime reproductive success, selection, and the
opportunity for selection in the white-tailed skimmer Plathemis lydia (Odonata: Libellulidae). Evolution 41: 22-36.
32. Koenig, W. D.
and M. D. Reynolds. 1987. Potential poisoning of yellow-billed magpies by
compound 1080. Wildlife Society Bulletin 15: 274-276.
33. Koenig, W. D. and S. S. Albano. 1987. Breeding site fidelity in Plathemis
lydia (Anisoptera:
Libellulidae). Odonatologica
16: 249-259.
34. Carmen, W. J., W. D. Koenig and R. L. Mumme. 1987. Acorn production
by five species of oaks over a seven year period at the Hastings Reservation,
Carmel Valley, California. Pp. 429-434 in Symposium on Multiple-Use
Management of California's Hardwood Resources (T. R. Plumb and N. H. Pillsbury,
technical coordinators). Pacific SW Forest & Range Exp. Station Gen. Tech.
Rep. PSW100.
35. Koenig, W. D. 1987. Morphological and dietary correlates of clutch size in
North American woodpeckers. Auk
104: 757-765.
36. Koenig, W. D., S. J. Hannon, R. L. Mumme and F. A. Pitelka. 1988.
Parent-offspring conflict in the acorn woodpecker. Proceedings of the
International Ornithological Congress
19: 1221-1230.
37. Mumme, R. L., W. D. Koenig and F. A. Pitelka. 1988. Costs and
benefits of joint nesting in the acorn woodpecker. American Naturalist 131: 654-677.
38. Koenig, W. D. 1988. Reciprocal altruism in birds: a critical review. Ethology
and Sociobiology 9:
73-84.
39. Koenig, W. D.
1988. On the determination of viable population size in birds and mammals. Wildlife
Society Bulletin 16:
230-234.
40. Koenig, W. D. and M. K. Heck. 1988. Ability of two species of oak
woodland birds to subsist on acorns. Condor 90: 705-708.
41. Koenig, W. D.
1988. Internal migration in the contemporary United States: comparison of
measures and partitioning of stages. Human Biology 60: 927-944.
42. Koenig, W. D.
1989. Sex-biased dispersal in the contemporary United States. Ethology and
Sociobiology 10:
263-278.
43. Mumme, R. L., W. D. Koenig and F. L. W. Ratnieks. 1989. Helping
behaviour, reproductive value, and the future component of indirect fitness. Animal
Behaviour 38: 331-343.
44. Koenig, W. D.
1990. Territory size and duration in the white-tailed skimmer Plathemis
lydia (Odonata:
Libellulidae). Journal of Animal Ecology 59: 317-334.
45. Stacey, P. B. and Koenig, W. D. 1990. Introduction. Pp. ix-xviii in Cooperative
Breeding in Birds: Long-term Studies of Ecology and Behavior (P. B. Stacey and W. D. Koenig, editors).
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
46. Koenig, W. D.
and P. B. Stacey. 1990. Acorn woodpeckers: Group living and food storage under
contrasting ecological conditions. Pp. 415-453 in Cooperative Breeding in
Birds: Long-term Studies of Ecology and Behavior (P. B. Stacey and W. D. Koenig,
editors). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
47. Koenig, W. D.
and R. L. Mumme. 1990. Levels of analysis and the functional significance of
helping behavior. Pp. 268-303 in Interpretation and explanation in the study
of behavior, vol. 2: Explanation, Evolution, and Adaptation (M. Bekoff and D. Jamieson, editors).
Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. Reprinted in: Readings in Animal
Cognition (M. Bekoff and
D. Jamieson, editors). MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
48. Weathers, W. W., W. D. Koenig and M. T. Stanback. 1990. Breeding
energetics and thermal ecology of the acorn woodpecker in central coastal
California. Condor
92: 341-359.
49. Mumme, R. L., W. D. Koenig and F. A. Pitelka. 1990. Individual
contributions to cooperative nest care in the acorn woodpecker. Condor 92: 360-368.
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50. Koenig, W. D.
1990. Dispersal, effective population size and the genetic structure of the
contemporary United States. American Journal of Human Biology 2: 165-170.
51. Koenig, W. D. 1990. Opportunity of parentage and nest destruction in
polygynandrous acorn woodpeckers, Melanerpes formicivorus. Behavioral
Ecology 1: 55-61.
52. Koenig, W. D., S. S. Albano and J. L. Dickinson. 1991. A comparison of
methods to partition selection acting via components of fitness: do larger male
bullfrogs have greater hatching success? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 4: 309-320.
53. Koenig, W. D. 1991. The effects of tannins and lipids on the digestibility
of acorns by acorn woodpeckers. Auk
108: 79-88.
54. Koenig, W. D., W. J. Carmen, M. T. Stanback and R. L. Mumme. 1991.
Determinants of acorn productivity among five species of oaks in central
coastal California. Pp.136-142 in Proceedings of the Symposium on Oak
Woodlands and Hardwood Rangeland Management. (R. B. Standiford, Technical coordinator). Pacific SW
Forest & Range Exp. Station Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW126.
55. Koenig, W. D., M. T. Stanback, P. N. Hooge and R. L. Mumme. 1991. Distress
calls in the acorn woodpecker. Condor 93: 637-643.
56. Mumme, R. L. and W. D. Koenig. 1991. Explanations for avian helping
behavior. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 6: 343-344.
57. Koenig, W. D.
1991. Levels of female choice in the white-tailed skimmer Plathemis lydia (Odonata: Libellulidae). Behaviour 119: 193-224.
58. Koenig, W. D.,
P. A. Gowaty and J. L. Dickinson. 1992. Boxes, barns, and bridges: confounding
factors or exceptional opportunities in ecological studies? Oikos 63: 305-308.
59. Stanback, M. T. and W. D. Koenig. 1992. Cannibalism in birds. Pp. 277-298
in Cannibalism: Ecology and Evolution among Diverse Taxa (M. A. Elgar and B. J. Crespi, eds.).
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
60. Koenig, W. D.,
F. A. Pitelka, W. J. Carmen, R. L. Mumme and M. T. Stanback. 1992. The
evolution of delayed dispersal in cooperative breeders. Quarterly Review of
Biology 67: 111-150.
61. Eichholz, M. W. and W. D. Koenig. 1992. Gopher snake attraction to birds'
nests. Southwestern Naturalist
37: 293-298.
62. Birkhead, T. R., K. Clarkson, M. D. Reynolds and W. D.
Koenig. 1992. Copulation
and mate guarding in the colonial yellow-billed magpie Pica nuttalli and a comparison with the solitary
black-billed magpie P. pica. Behaviour 121: 110-130.
63. Koenig, W. D., R. L. Mumme, W. J. Carmen and M. T. Stanback. 1994. Acorn
production by oaks in central coastal California: variation within and among
years. Ecology 75:
99-109.
64. Stanback, M. T. and W. D. Koenig. 1994. Techniques for capturing birds
inside natural cavities. Journal of Field Ornithology 65: 70-75.
65. Du Plessis, M., W. W. Weathers and W. D. Koenig. 1994. Energetic benefits of communal
roosting by acorn woodpeckers in the non-breeding season. Condor 96: 631-637.
66. Leonard, M. L., K. L. Teather, A. G. Horn, W. D.
Koenig and J. L.
Dickinson. 1994. Provisioning in western bluebirds is not related to offspring
sex. Behavioral Ecology
5: 455-459.
67. Knops, J. M. H. and W. D. Koenig. 1994. Water use strategies of five
sympatric species of Quercus in central coastal California. Madroño 41: 290-301.
68. Koenig, W. D., J. M. H. Knops, W. J. Carmen, M. T. Stanback and R. L.
Mumme. 1994. Estimating acorn crops using visual surveys. Canadian Journal
of Forest Research 24:
2105-2112.
69. Koenig, W. D.
1994. Two new bird-mammal associations from Kenya, with comments on host use by
wattled starlings. Ostrich
65: 337-338.
70. Koenig, W. D.,
R. L. Mumme, M. T. Stanback and F. A. Pitelka. 1995. Patterns and consequences
of egg destruction among joint-nesting acorn woodpeckers. Animal Behaviour 50: 607-621.
71. Dickinson, J. L., J. Haydock, W. D. Koenig, M. T. Stanback and F. A. Pitelka. 1995.
Genetic monogamy in single-male groups of acorn woodpeckers. Molecular
Ecology 4: 765-770.
72. Leonard, M. L., J. L. Dickinson, A. G. Horn and W. D.
Koenig. 1995. An
experimental test of offspring recognition in western bluebirds. Auk 112: 1062-1064.
73. Koenig, W. D., P. B. Stacey, M. T. Stanback and R. L. Mumme. 1995. Acorn
woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus).
In The Birds of North America,
No. 194 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.) Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia;
American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington, D.C.
74. Dickinson, J. L., W. D. Koenig and F. A. Pitelka. 1996. Fitness
consequences of helping behavior in the western bluebird. Behavioral Ecology 7: 168-177.
75. Koenig, W. D.,
J. M. H. Knops, W. J. Carmen, M. T. Stanback and R. L. Mumme. 1996. Acorn
production by oaks in central coastal California: influence of weather at three
levels. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26: 1677-1683.
76. Koenig, W. D.
and J. L. Dickinson.1996. Nestling sex-ratio variation in western bluebirds. Auk 113: 902-910.
77. Koenig, W. D.,
D. Van Vuren and P. N. Hooge. 1996. Detectability, philopatry, and the
distribution of dispersal distances in vertebrates. Trends in Ecology &
Evolution 11: 514-517.
78. Lidicker, W. Z., Jr. and W. D. Koenig. 1996. Responses of terrestrial
vertebrates to habitat edges and corridors. Pp. 85-109 in Metapopulations
and Wildlife Conservation
(D. R. McCullough, ed.) Island Press, Washington, D.C.
79. Koenig, W. D. 1997. Host preferences and behavior of oxpeckers:
coexistence of similar species in a fragmented landscape. Evolutionary
Ecology 11: 91-104.
80. Monk, D. S. and W. D. Koenig. 1997. Individual, brood, and sex
variation in begging calls of western bluebirds. Wilson Bulletin 109: 328-332.
81. Fincke, O. M., J. K. Waage and W. D. Koenig. 1997. Natural and sexual selection
components of Odonate mating patterns. Pp. 58-74 in The Evolution of Mating
Systems in Insects and Arachnids
(J. C. Choe and B. J. Crespi, eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
82. Knops, J. M. H., W. D. Koenig, and T. H. Nash, III. 1997. On the
relationship between nutrient use efficiency and fertility in forest
ecosystems. Oecologia
110: 550-556.
83. Knops, J. M. H. and W. D. Koenig. 1997. Site fertility and leaf nutrients
of sympatric evergreen and deciduous species of Quercus in central coastal California. Plant
Ecology 130: 121-131.
84. Reynolds, M. D. and W. D. Koenig. 1997. Reproductive success of
yellow-billed magpies Pica nuttalli
in central coastal California. Acta Ornithologica 32: 99-109.
85. Koenig, W. D.
and J. M. H. Knops. 1997. Patterns of geographic synchrony in growth and
reproduction of oaks within California and beyond. Pp.101-108 in Proceedings
of the Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Ecology, Management, and Urban Interface
Issues. (N. H.
Pillsbury, J. Verner, and W. D. Tietje, Technical coordinators) Pacific SW For.
& Range Exp. Stn Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-160.
86. Koenig, W. D.,
J. Haydock, and M. T. Stanback. 1998. Reproductive roles in the cooperatively
breeding acorn woodpecker: incest avoidance vs. reproductive competition. American
Naturalist 151: 243-255.
87. Koenig, W. D.
and J. M. H. Knops. 1998. Testing for spatial autocorrelation in ecological
studies. Ecography
21: 423-429.
88. Koenig, W. D.
1998. Spatial autocorrelation in California land birds. Conservation Biology 12: 612-620
89. Koenig, W. D. and S. H. Faeth. 1998. Effects of storage on tannin and
protein content of cached acorns. Southwestern Naturalist 43: 170-175.
90. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 1998. Scale of mast-seeding and
tree-ring growth. Nature
396: 225-226.
91. Koenig, W. D.
1999. Spatial autocorrelation in ecological studies. Trends in Ecology &
Evolution 14: 22-26.
92. Hooge, P. N., M. T. Stanback and W. D. Koenig. 1999. Nest-site selection in the acorn
woodpecker. Auk 116:
45-54.
93. Koenig, W. D.
and J. R. Walters. 1999. Sex-ratio selection in species with helpers at the
nest: the repayment model revisited. American Naturalist 153: 124-130.
94. Koenig, W. D.
and J. Haydock. 1999. Oaks, acorns, and the geographical ecology of the acorn
woodpecker. Journal of Biogeography
26: 159-165.
95. Koenig, W. D.,
M. T. Stanback, and J. Haydock. 1999. Demographic consequences of incest
avoidance in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker. Animal Behaviour 57: 1287-1293.
96. Koenig, W. D.,
J. M. H. Knops, W. J. Carmen, and M. T. Stanback. 1999. Spatial dynamics in the
absence of dispersal: acorn production by oaks in central coastal California. Ecography 22: 499-506.
97. Koenig, W. D., D. R. McCullough, C. E. Vaughn, J. M. H. Knops, and W. J. Carmen.
1999. Synchrony and asynchrony of acorn production at two coastal California
sites. Madroño 46: 20-24.
98. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 1999. The ecology of blue oak (Quercus
douglasii) acorn
production. Journal of the International Oak Society 9: 60-68.
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99. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 2000. Patterns of annual seed
production by northern hemisphere trees: a global perspective. American
Naturalist 155: 59-69.
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100. Koenig, W. D., P. N. Hooge, M. T. Stanback, and J. Haydock. 2000. Natal
dispersal in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker. Condor 102: 492-502.
101. Trenham, P. C., H. B. Shaffer, W. D. Koenig, and M. R. Stromberg. 2000. Life history
and demographic variation in the California tiger salamander (Ambystoma
californiense). Copeia 2000: 365-377.
102. Knops, J. M. H. and W. D. Koenig. 2000. Annual variation in xylem water
potential in California oaks. Madroño 47: 106-108.
103. Koenig, W. D., M. T. Stanback, J. Haydock, and F. Kraaijeveld-Smit.
2001. Nestling sex-ratio variation in the cooperatively breeding acorn
woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus).
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 49: 357-365.
104. Haydock, J., W. D. Koenig, and M. T. Stanback. 2001. Shared
parentage and incest avoidance in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker. Molecular
Ecology 10: 1515-1526.
105. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 2001. Seed-crop size and eruptions of
North American boreal seed-eating birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 70: 609-620.
106. Koenig, W. D. 2001. Synchrony and periodicity of eruptions by boreal
seed-eating birds. Condor
103: 725-735.
107. Koenig, W. D. 2001. Spatial autocorrelation and local disappearances in
wintering North American birds. Ecology 82: 2636-2644.
108. Trenham, P. C., W. D. Koenig, and H. B. Shaffer. 2001. Spatially
autocorrelated demography and interpond dispersal in the pond breeding
salamander Ambystoma californiense.
Ecology 82:
3519-3530.
109. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 2002. The behavioral ecology of masting
in oaks. Pp. 129- 148 in Oak Forest Ecosystems (W. J. McShea and W. M. Healy, eds.) The
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.
110. Koenig, W. D. 2002. Global patterns of environmental synchrony and the
Moran effect. Ecography
25: 283-288.
111. Koenig, W. D., J. M. H. Knops, and W. J. Carmen. 2002. Arboreal seed
removal and insect damage in three California oaks. Pp. 193-204 in Proceedings
of the Fifth Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Oaks in California’s Changing Landscape. R. B. Standiford, D. McCreary, and K.
L. Purcell, technical coordinators. Pacific SW Forest & Range Exp. Station
Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-184.
112. Koenig, W. D. and L. S. Benedict. 2002. Size, insect parasitism, and
energetic value of acorns stored by acorn woodpeckers. Condor 104: 539-547.
113. Chu, M., W. D. Koenig, A. Godinez, C. E. McIntosh, and R. C.
Fleischer. 2002. Social and genetic monogamy in territorial and loosely
colonial populations of the phainopepla. Auk
119: 770-777.
114. Haydock, J. and W. D. Koenig. 2002. Reproductive skew in the
polygynandrous acorn woodpecker. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (USA) 99:
7178-7183.
115. Craft, K. J., M. V. Ashley, and W. D. Koenig. 2002. Limited hybridization between Quercus
lobata and Quercus
douglasii (Fagaceae) in
a mixed stand in central coastal California. American Journal of Botany 89: 1792-1798.
116. Koenig, W. D. and M. V. Ashley. 2003. Is pollen limited? The answer is
blowin’ in the wind. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18: 157-159.
117. Haydock, J. and W. D. Koenig. 2003. Patterns of reproductive skew in
the polygynandrous acorn woodpecker. American Naturalist 162: 277-289.
118. Trenham, P. C., W. D.
Koenig, M. J. Mossman, S. L. Stark, and L.
A. Jagger. 2003. Regional dynamics of wetland-breeding frogs and toads:
turnover and synchrony. Ecological Applications 13: 1522-1532.
119. Koenig, W. D. and A. M. Liebhold. 2003. Regional impacts of periodical
cicadas on oak radial increment. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33: 1084-1089.
120. Koenig, W. D. 2003. European starlings and their effect on native
cavity-nesting birds. Conservation Biology 17: 1134-1140.
121. Koenig, W. D., D. Kelly, V. L. Sork, R. P. Duncan, J. S. Elkinton, M. S.
Peltonen and R. D. Westfall. 2003. Dissecting components of population-level
variation in seed production and the evolution of masting behavior. Oikos 102: 581-591.
122. Buonaccorsi, J. P., J. Elkinton, W. Koenig, R. Duncan, D. Kelly and V. Sork. 2003.
Measuring mast seeding behavior: relationships among population variation,
individual variation and synchrony. Journal of Theoretical Biology 224: 107-114.
123. Koenig, W. D. and J. L. Dickinson. 2004. Introduction. Pp. 1-4 in Ecology
and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds (W. D. Koenig and J. L. Dickinson,
eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
124. Koenig, W. D. and J. Haydock. 2004. Incest avoidance. Pp. 142-156 in Ecology
and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds (W. D. Koenig and J. L. Dickinson, eds.).
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
125. Liebhold, A. M., V. Sork, M. Peltonen, W. D. Koenig,
O. Bjørnstad, R. Westfall, J. Elkinton, and J. M. H. Knops. 2004. Within-population
spatial synchrony in mast seeding of North American oaks. Oikos 104: 156-164.
126. Liebhold, A. M., W. D. Koenig and O. Bjørnstad. 2004. Spatial
synchrony in population dynamics. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and
Systematics 35: 467-490.
127. Koenig, W. D. and A. M. Liebhold. 2005. Effects of periodical cicada
emergences on abundance and synchrony of avian populations. Ecology 86: 1873-1882.
128. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters, J. R. Walters, J. S. Kellam, K. G. Michalek,
and M. S. Schrader. 2005. Seasonal body weight variation in five species of
woodpeckers. Condor
107: 810-822.
129. Monahan, W. B. and W. D.
Koenig. 2006. Potential effects of
SOD on the oak woodland bird community of coastal California. Pp.
195-209 in Proceedings of the Sudden Oak Death Second Science Symposium: the
State of Our Knowledge.
(S. J. Frankel, P. J. Shea, and M. I. Haverty, Technical coordinators). Pacific
SW Forest & Range Exp. Station Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-196.
130. Monahan, W. B. and W. D. Koenig. 2006. Estimating the effects of sudden
oak death on oak-dependent birds. Biological Conservation 127: 146-157.
131. Koenig, W. D., M. T. Stanback, and J. Haydock. 2006. Abbreviated inner
primaries: a sex-linked dimorphism in the acorn woodpecker. Journal of Field
Ornithology 77: 157-162.
132. Koenig, W. D. 2006. Spatial synchrony of monarch butterflies. American
Midland Naturalist 155:
39-49.
133. Wiebe, K. L., W. D. Koenig, and K. Martin. 2006. Evolution of
clutch size in cavity-excavating birds: the nest site limitation hypothesis
revisited. American Naturalist
167: 343-353.
134. Koenig, W. D., L. Marcus, T. W. Scott, and J. L. Dickinson. 2007. West
Nile virus and California breeding bird declines. EcoHealth 4: 18-24.
135. Koenig, W. D. and J. T. Stahl. 2007. Late summer and fall nesting in the
acorn woodpecker and other North American terrestrial birds. Condor 109: 334-350.
136. Wiebe, K., W. D. Koenig, and K. Martin. 2007. Costs and benefits
of nest reuse versus excavation in cavity-nesting birds. Annales Zoologici
Fennici 44: 209-217.
137. Knops, J. M. H., W. D. Koenig, and W. J. Carmen. 2007. A negative
correlation does not imply a trade-off between growth and reproduction in
California oaks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 104: 16982-16985.
138. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 2007. Long-term growth and persistence
of blue oak (Quercus douglasii)
seedlings in a California oak savanna. Madroño 54: 269-274.
139. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 2008. Timing of flowering and seed production in three California oaks. Pp. 371-380 in A. Merenlender, D. McCreary, and K. L. Purcell (tech. coords.), Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Opportunities. Pacific SW Forest & Range Exp. Station Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-217.
140. Garrison, B. A., W. D. Koenig, and J. M. H. Knops. 2007. Spatial synchrony and temporal patterns in acorn production by California black oaks. Pp. 343-356 in A. Merenlender, D. McCreary, and K. L. Purcell (tech. coords.), Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Opportunities. Pacific SW Forest & Range Exp. Station Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-217.
141. Scott, T., P.-Y. Lee, K. Paggett, R. Carney, S. Husted, and W. D. Koenig. 2007. The impact of West Nile virus on birds in California’s hardwood rangelands. Pp. 151-163 in Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Opportunities. Pacific SW Forest & Range Exp. Station Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-217.
142. Koenig, W. D., and J. L. Dickinson. 2008. Cooperative breeding as an
alternative reproductive tactic. Pp. 451-470 in Alternative Reproductive
Tactics: an Integrative Approach
(R. Oliveira, M. Taborsky, and J. Brockmann, eds.). Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
143. Koenig, W. D., S.-F. Shen, A. H. Krakauer, and J. Haydock. 2009.
Reproductive skew in avian societies. Pp. 227-264 in Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates:
Proximate and Ultimate Causes
(R. Hager and C. B. Jones, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
144. Crosbie, S. P., W. D. Koenig, K. Reisen, V. L. Kramer, L. Marcus, R.
Carney, E. Pandolfino, G. M. Bolen, L. R. Crosbie, D. A. Bell, H. B. Ernest.
2008. Early impact of West Nile virus on the yellow-billed magpie (Pica
nuttalli). Auk 125: 542-550.
145. Stromberg, M. R., W. D. Koenig, E. L. Walters, and J. Schweisinger.
2008. Estimate of Trichomonas gallinae-induced mortality in band-tailed pigeons, upper Carmel
Valley, California, winter 2006-2007. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120: 603-606.
146. Koenig, W. D. 2008. Lifetime reproductive success and sexual selection
theory. Pp. 153-166 in Dragonflies and damselflies: model organisms for
ecological and evolutionary research
(A. Córdoba-Aguilar, ed.) Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
147. Koenig, W. D., D. J. Shaefer, S. Mambelli, and T. E. Dawson. 2008.
Acorns, insects, and the diet of adult vs. nestling acorn woodpeckers. Journal
of Field Ornithology79: 280-285.
148. Monahan, W. B., J. Tse, W. D. Koenig, and M. Garbelotto. 2008. Herbarium specimens suggest non-native origins for three species of Phytophthora in California. Mycological Research112: 757-758.
149. Koenig, W. D., J. P. McEntee, and E. L. Walters. 2008. Acorn harvesting by acorn woodpeckers: annual variation and comparison with genetic estimates. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10: 811-822. pdf
150. Kelly, D., W. D. Koenig, and A. M. Liebhold. 2008. An
intercontinental comparison of the dynamic behavior of mast seeding
communities. Population Ecology
50: 329-342.
151. Koenig, W. D., A. H. Krakauer, W. B. Monahan, J. Haydock, J. M. H. Knops,
and W. J. Carmen. 2009. Mast-producing trees and the geographical ecology
of western scrub-jays. Ecography 32: 561-570. pdf
152. Koenig, W. D., J. M. H. Knops, W. J. Carmen, and R. D. Sage. 2009. No
trade-off between seed size and number in the valley oak Quercus lobata. American Naturalist173: 682-688.pdf
153. Koenig, W. D., J. M. H. Knops, J. L. Dickinson, and B. Zuckerberg. 2009. Latitudinal decrease in acorn size in bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is due to environmental constraints, not avian dispersal. Botany 87: 349-356.pdf
154. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters, and J. Haydock. 2009. Helpers and egg investment in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker: testing the concealed helper effects hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63: 1659-1665.pdf
155. Koenig, W. D., and M. D. Reynolds. 2009. Yellow-billed Magpie (Pica nuttalli), in The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/180 (doi:10.2173/bna.180)
156. Koenig, W. D., W. M. Hochachka, B. Zuckerberg, and J. L. Dickinson. 2010. Ecological determinants of American crow mortality due to West Nile virus during its North American sweep. Oecologia 163: 903-909. pdf
157. Koenig, W. D., J. M. H. Knops and W. J. Carmen. 2010. Testing the environmental prediction hypothesis for mast-seeding in CAlifornia oaks. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40: 2115-2122 pdf
158. Koenig, W. D., L. Ries, V. B. K. Olsen, and A. M. Liebhold. 2011. Avian predators are less abundant during periodicial cicada emergences, but why? Ecology 92: 784-790. pdf
159. Sage, R. D., W. D. Koenig, and B. C. McLaughlin. 2011. Fitness consequences of seed size in the valley oak Quercus lobata Née (Fagaceae). Annals of Forest Science 68: 477-484.pdf
160. Nunn, C. L., V. O. Ezenwa, C. Arnold, and W. D. Koenig. 2011. Mutualism or parasitism? Using a phylogenetic approach to characterize the oxpecker-ungulate relationship. Evolution 65: 1297-1304.pdf
161. Zuckerberg, B., D. N. Bonter, W. M. Hochachka, W. D. Koenig, A. T. DeGeatano, and J. L. Dickinson. 2011. Climatic constraints on wintering bird distributions are modified by urbanization and weather. Journal of Animal Ecology 80: 403-413.pdf
162. Scofield, D. G., V. R. Alfaro, V. L. Sork, D. Grivet, E. Martinez, J. Papp, A. R. Pluess, W. D. Koenig, and P. E. Smouse. 2011. Foraging patterns of acorn woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus) on valley oak (Quercus lobata Née) in two California oak savanna-woodlands. Oecologia 166: 187-196.pdf
163. Rosenstock, T. S., A. Hastings, W. D. Koenig, D. J. Lyles, and P. H. Brown. 2011. Testing Moran’s theorem in an agroecosystem. Oikos 120: 1434-1440.pdf
164. Abraham, S. T., D. N. Zaya, W. D. Koenig, and M. V. Ashley. 2011. Interspecific and intraspecific pollination patterns of valley oak, Quercus lobata, in a mixed stand in coastal central California. International Journal of Plant Sciences 172: 691-699.pdf
165. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters, and A. M. Liebhold. 2011. Effects of gypsy moth outbreaks on North American woodpeckers. Condor 113: 352-361. pdf
166. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters, and J. Haydock. 2011. Variable helper effects, ecological conditions, and the evolution of cooperative breeding in the acorn woodpecker. American Naturalist 178: 145-158. pdf
167. Morrison, S. A., T. S. Sillett, C. K. Ghalambor, J. W. Fitzpatrick, D. M. Graber, V. J. Bakker, R. Bowman, C. T. Collins, P. W. Collins, K. S. Delaney, D. F. Doak, W. D. Koenig, L. Laughrin, A. A. Lieberman, J. M. Marzluff, M. D. Reynolds, J. M. Scott, J. A. Stallcup, W. Vickers, and W. M. Boyce. 2011. Proactive conservation management of an island-endemic bird species in the face of global change. BioScience 61: 1013–1021.pdf
168. Koenig, W. D., and E. L. Walters. 2011. Age-related provisioning behaviour in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker: testing the skills and the pay-to-stay hypotheses. Animal Behaviour 82: 437-444. pdf
169. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters, and J. Haydock. 2011. Fitness consequences of within-brood dominance in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65: 2229-2238. pdf
170. Koenig, W. D., and E. L. Walters. 2012. Brooding, provisioning, and compensatory care in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker. Behavioral Ecology 23: 181-190. pdf
171. Zuckerberg, B., A. Desrochers, W. M. Hochachka, W. D. Koenig, and J. L. Dickinson. 2012. Do overlapping landscapes lead to a violation in spatial dependency? Journal of Wildlife Management 76: 1072-1080.pdf
172. Koenig, W. D., K. A. Funk, T. S. Kraft, W. J. Carmen, B. C. Barringer, and J. M. H. Knops. 2012. Stabilizing selection for within-season flowering phenology confirms pollen limitation in a wind-pollinated tree. Journal of Ecology 100: 758-763. pdf
173. Koenig, W. D., and E. L. Walters. 2012. An experimental study of chick provisioning in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker. Ethology 118: 566-574. pdf
174. Barringer, B. C., W. D. Koenig, and J. M. H. Knops. 2012. Interrelationships among life-history traits in three California oaks. Oecologia 171: 129-139. pdf
175. Knops, J.M. H. and W. D. Koenig. 2012. Sex allocation in California oaks: trade-offs or resource tracking? PLoS One 7(8): e43492. pdf
176. Koenig, W. D. and A. M. Liebhold. 2013. Avian predation pressure as a potential driver of periodical cicada cycle length. American Naturalist 181: 145-149. pdf
177. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 2013. Large scale spatial synchrony and cross-synchrony in acorn production by two California oaks. Ecology 94: 83-93. pdf
178. Rusk, C. L., E. L. Walters, and W. D. Koenig. 2013. Cooperative breeding and long-distance dispersal: a test using vagrant records. PLoS One 8(3): e58624. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058624 pdf
179. Koenig, W. D., A. M. Liebhold, D. N. Bonter, W. M. Hochachka, and J. L. Dickinson. 2013. Effects of the emerald ash borer invasion on four species of birds. Biological Invasions 15: 2095-2103. doi:10.1007/s10530-013-0435-x pdf
180. Pearse, I. S., S. Griswold, D. Pizarro, and W. D. Koenig. 2014. Stage and size structure of three species of oaks in central coastal California. Madroño 61: 1-8. pdf Data from this paper are available here.
181. Pearse, I. S., W. D. Koenig, and J. M. H. Knops. 2014. Cues versus proximate drivers: testing the mechanism behind masting behavior. Oikos 123: 179-184. pdf
182. W. D. Koenig, M. Díaz, F. Pulido, R. Alejano, E. Beamonte, and J. M. H. Knops. 2013. Acorn production patterns. Pp. 181-209 in Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes: Dehesas of Spain and Ranchlands of California, P. Campos, L. Huntsinger, J. L. Oviedo, P. F. Starrs, M. Díaz, R. B. Standiford, and G. Montero, editors. Springer Landscape Series, vol. 16. pdf
183. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 2014. Environmental correlates of acorn production by four species of Minnesota oaks. Population Ecology 56: 63-71. pdf
184. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters, I. S. Pearse, W. J. Carmen, and J. M. H. Knops. 2014. Serotiny in California oaks. Madroño 61: 151-158. pdf
185. Koenig, W. D. and E. L. Walters. 2014. What we don't know, and what needs to be known, about the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker. Acta Ornithologica 49: 221-232. pdf
186. Koenig, W. D., J. M. H. Knops, W. J. Carmen, and I. S. Pearse. 2015. What drives masting? The phenological synchrony hypothesis. Ecology 96: 184-192. pdf
187. Pearse, I. S., W. D. Koenig, K. A. Funk, and M. A. Pesendorfer. 2015. Pollen limitation and flower abortion in a wind-pollinated, masting tree. Ecology 96: 587-593. pdf
188. Pearse, I. S., K. A. Funk, and T. S. Kraft, and W. D. Koenig. 2015. Lagged effects of early season herbivores on valley oak fecundity. Oecologia 178: 361-368. pdf
189. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters, J. M. H. Knops, and W. J. Carmen. 2015. Acorns and acorn woodpeckers: ups and downs in a long-term relationship. In: Proceedings and the 7th California Oak Symposium: Managing Oak Woodlands in a Dynamic World. Pacific SW Forest & Range Exp. Station Gen. Tech. Rep.
190. Pérez-Ramos, I. M., C. M. Padilla-Díaz, W. D. Koenig, and T. Marañón. 2015. Environmental drivers of mast-seeding in Mediterranean oak species: does leaf habit matter? Journal of Ecology 103: 691-700. pdf
191. Strong, C., B. Zuckerberg, J. L. Betancourt, and W. D. Koenig. 2015. Climatic dipoles driver two principal modes of North American boreal bird irruption. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 112: E2795-E2802. pdf
192. McMahon, D. E., I. S. Pearse, W. D. Koenig, and E. L. Walters. 2015. Tree community shifts and acorn woopecker population increases over three decades in a California oak woodland. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 45:1113-1120. pdf
193. Pearse, I. S., J. H. Baty, D. Herrmann, R. Sage, and W. D. Koenig. 2015. Leaf phenology mediates provenance differences in herbivore populations on valley oaks in a common garden. Ecological Entomology 40: 525-531. pdf
194. Koenig, W. D. and E. L. Walters. 2015. Temporal variability and cooperative breeding: testing the bet-hedging hypothesis in the acorn woodpecker. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20151742. pdf
195. Ashley, M. V., S. T. Abraham, J. R. Backs, and W. D. Koenig. 2015. Landscape genetics and population structure in valley oak (Quercus lobata Née). American Journal of Botany 102: 21243-2131. pdf
196. Funk, K. A., W. D. Koenig, and J. M. H. Knops. 2016. Fire effects on acorn production are consistent with the stored resource hypothesis for masting behavior. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 46: 20-24. pdf
197. Dickinson, J. L. and W. D. Koenig. 2016. Introduction. Pp. 1-5 in Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates: Studies in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. (W. D. Koenig and J. L. Dickinson, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
198. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters and J. Haydock. 2016. Acorn woodpeckers: helping at the nest, polygynandry, and dependence on a variable acorn crop. Pp. 217-236 in Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates: Studies in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. (W. D. Koenig and J. L. Dickinson, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pdf
199. Koenig, W. D., J. L. Dickinson and S. T. Emlen. 2016. Synthesis: cooperative breeding in the 21st century. Pp. 353-374 in Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates: Studies in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. (W. D. Koenig and J. L. Dickinson, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pdf
200. Pesendorfer, M. B., T. S. Sillett, W. D. Koenig and S. A. Morrison. 2016. Scatter-hoarding corvids as seed dispersers for oaks and pines: a review of a widely distributed mutualism and its utility to habitat restoration. Condor: Ornithological Applications 118: 215-237. pdf
201. Rogers, K. H., Y. A. Girard, W. D. Koenig, and C. K. Johnson. 2016. Ecological drivers and population impacts of avian Trichoonosis mortality events in band-tailed pigeons (Patagioenas monilis) in California, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 52: 484-494. pdf
202. Koenig, W. D. and A. M. Liebhold. 2016. Temporally increasing spatial synchrony of North American temperature and bird populations. Nature Climate Change 6: 614-617. pdf
203. Pesendorfer, M. B., W. D. Koenig, I. S. Pearse, J. M. H. Knops, and K. A. Funk. 2016. Individual resource-limitation combined with population-wide pollen availability drives masting in the valley oak (Quercus lobata). Journal of Ecology 104: 637-645. pdf
204. Pesendorfer, M. B. and W. D. Koenig. 2016. The effect of within-year variation in acorn crop size on seed harvesting by avian horders. Oecologia 181: 97-106. pdf
205. Koenig, W. D. and E. L. Walters. 2016. Provisioning patterns in the cooperatively-breeding acorn woodpecker: is feeding a signal, and if so, to whom and why? Animal Behaviour 119: 125-134. pdf
206. Koenig, W. D., R. Alejano, M. D. Carbonero, P. Fernández-Rebollo, J. M. H. Knops, T. Marañón, C. M. Padilla-Díaz, I. S. Pearse, I. M. Pérez-Ramos, J. Vázquez-Piqué, and M. B. Pesendorfer. 2016. Is the relationship between mast-seeding and weather in oaks related to their life-history or phylogeny? Ecology 97: 2603-2615. pdf
207. Pearse, I. S., W. D. Koenig, and D. Kelly. 2016. [Tansley review] Mechanisms of mast seeding: resources, weather, cues, and selection. New Phytologist 212: 546-562. pdf
208. Pesendorfer, M. B., and W. D. Koenig, 2017. Competing for seed dispersal: evidence for the role of avian seed hoarders in mediating apparent predation among oaks. Functional Ecology 31: 622-631. pdf
209. Koenig, W. D. J. M. H. Knops, W. J. Carmen, and M. B. Pesendorfer. 2017. Testing the terminal investment hypothesis in California oaks. American Naturalist 189: 564-569. pdf
210. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters and P. G. Rodewald. 2017. Testing alternative hypotheses for the cause of population declines: the case of the red-headed woodpecker. Condor: Ornithological Applications 119: 143-154. pdf
211. Gharehaghaji, M., E. S. MInor, M. V. Ashley S. T. Abraham, and W. D. Koenig, 2017. Effects of landscape features on gene flow of valley oaks (Quercus lobata). Plant Ecology 218: 487-499. pdf
212. Koenig, W. D. and A. M. Liebhold. 2017. A decade of emerald ash borer effects on regional woodpecker and nuthatch populations. Biological Invasions 19: 2029-2037. pdf
213. Cockburn, A., B. J. Hatchwell, and W. D. Koenig, 2016. Sociality in birds.Pp. 320-353 in Comparative Social Evolution. (D. R. Rubenstein and P. Abbot, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
214. Shen, S.-F., S. T. Emlen, W. D. Koenig, and D. R. Rubenstein. 2017. The ecology of cooperative breeding behavior. Ecology Letters 20: 708-720. pdf
215. Koenig,W. D. 2017. Striving for science that is transparent, credible--and enjoyable: a comment on Ihle et al. Behavioral Ecology 28: 358. pdf
216. Koenig, W. D., J. M. H. Knops, M. B. Pesendorfer, D. N. Zaya, and M. V. Ashley. 2017. Drivers of synchrony of acorn production in the valley oak (Quercus lobata) at two spatial scales. Ecology 98: 3056-3062. pdf
217. Pearse, I. S., J. M. LaMontagne, and W. D. Koenig. 2017. Interannual variation in seed production has increased over time. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: 20171666. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1666. pdf
218. Pesendorfer, M. B. and W. D. Koenig. J. 2018. Does aggression avoidance drive oak tree attendance by corvid scatter-hoarders? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72: 85. doi: 10.1007/s00265-018-2498-2. pdf
219. Koenig, W. D., J, J. M. H. Knops, W. J. Carmen, M. B. Pesendorfer, and J. L. Dickinson. 2018. Effects of mistletoe (Phoradendron villosum) on California oaks. Biology Letters 14: 20180240. pdf
220. Pardo, M.A., E. A. Sparks, T. S. Kuray, N. D. Hagemeyer, E. L. Walters, and W. D. Koenig. J. 2018. Wild acorn woodpeckers recognize associations between individuals in other groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20181017. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1017 pdf
221. Schubert, S. C., M. B. Pesendorfer, and W. D. Koenig. 2018. Context-dependent post-dispersal predation of acorns in a California oak community. Acta Oecologica 92: 52-58. pdf
222. Koenig, W. D. and E. L. Walters. 2018. Causes of seasonal decline in reproduction of the cooperatively-breeding acorn woodpecker. Journal of Avian Biology 49: e01784. pdf
223. Moreria, X., L. Abdala-Roberts, I. M. Pérez-Ramos, J. M. H. Knops, M. B. Pesendorfer, W. D. Koenig , and K. A. Mooney. 2019. Weather cues associated with masting behavior dampen the negative autocorrelation between past and current reproduction in oaks. American Journal of Botany 106: 51-60. pdf
224. Pesendorfer, M. B., M. Bogdziewicz, W. D. Koenig, M. Ledwon and M. Zywiec. 2019. Declining fruit production before death in a widely distributed tree. Annals of Forest Science 76:11. pdf
225. Barve, S., W. D. Koenig, J. Haydock and E. L. Walters. 2019. Habitat saturation results in joint-nesting female coalitions in a social bird. American Naturalist 193: 830-840. pdf
226. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters, and S. Barve. 2019. Does helping-at-the-nest help? The case of the acorn woodpecker. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:272. pdf
227. Koenig, W. D., E. L. Walters, P. B.Stacey, M. T. Stanback, and R. L. Mumme. 2019. Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), version 2.0. In: Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, Editor) Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. https://doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.2173/bna.acowoo.02
228. Fernández-Martínez, M., I. Pearse, I., J. Sardans, F. Sayol, W. D. Koenig, J. M. LaMontagne, M. Bogdziewicz, A. Collalti, A. Hacket-Pain, G. Vacchiano, J. M. Espelta, J. Peñuelas, and I. A. Janssens. 2019. Nutrient scarcity as a selective pressure for mast seeding. Nature Plants 5: 1222-1228. pdf
229. Barve, S., N. D. G. Hagemeyer, R. E. Winter, S. D. Chamberlain, W. D. Koenig, and E. L. Walters. 2020. Wandering woodpeckers: foray behavior in a social bird. Ecology 101: e02943. pdf
230. Barringer, B. C., W. D. Koenig, , I. S. Pearse, and J. M. H. Knops. 2020. Population ecology and spatial synchrony in the abundance of leaf gall wasps within and among populations of valley oak. (Quercus lobata). Population Ecology 62: 220-232. pdf
231. Bogdziewicz, M., D. Ascoli, A. Hacket-Pain, W. D. Koenig, M. B. Pesendorfer, I. S. Pearse, A. Satake, P. Thomas, G. Vacchiano, T. Wohlgemuth, and A. Tanentzap. 2020. From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology. Ecology Letters 23: 210-220. pdf
232. Zuckerberg, B., C. Strong, J. M. LaMontagne, S. St. George, J. L. Betancourt, and W. D. Koenig. 2020. Climate dipoles as continental drivers of plant and animal populations. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35: 440-453. pdf
233. LaMontagne, J., I. S. Pearse, D. F. Greene, and W. D. Koenig. . 2020. Mast seeding patterns are asynchronous at a continental scale. Nature Plants 6: 460-465. pdf
234. Pearse, I.S., J. M. LaMontagne, M. Lordon, A. L. Hipp, and W. D. Koenig. 2020. Biogeography and phylogeny of masting: do global patterns fit functional hypotheses? New Phytologist 227: 1557-1567. doi: 10.1111/nph.16617. pdf
235. Koenig, W. D., J. M. H. Knops, and W. J. Carmen 2020. Can mast history be inferred from radial growth? A test using five species of California oaks. Forest Ecology and Management 472: 118233. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118233. pdf
236. Pardo, M. A., C. E. Hayes, E. L. Walters, and W. D. Koenig. 2020. Acorn woodpeckers vocally discriminate current and former group members from non-group members. Behavioral Ecology 31: 1120-1128. pdf
237. Koenig, W. D., J. M. H. Knops, and W. J. Carmen. 2020. Intraspecific variation in the relationship between weather and masting behavior in valley oak Quercus lobata. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 50: 1299-1306. pdf
238. Barve, S., A. S. Lahey, R. M. Brunner, W. D. Koenig, and E. L. Walters. 2020. Woodpecker wars: tracking warriors and spectators with telemetry. Current Biology 30: R982-R983. pdf
239. Pardo, M. A., E. L. Walters, and W. D. Koenig. 2020. Experimental evidence that acorn woodpeckers recognize relationships among third parties no longer living. Behavioral Ecology 31: 1257-1265. pdf
240. Koenig, W. D. 2020. What are the competitive effects of invasive species? Forty years of the Eurasian Collared-dove in North America. Biological Invasions 22: 3645-3652. pdf
241. Koenig, W. D. , E. M. Hallock, D. J. Weber, and E. L. Walters. 2021. Nest cavity reuse by the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker. Ornithology 138: ukaa088. pdf
242. Clark, J. S., et al. 2021. Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects. Nature Communications 12:1242. pdf
243. Koenig, W. D. , A. C. B. Prinz, J. Haydock, H. L. Dugdale, and E. L. Walters. 2021. Are you my baby? Testing whether paternity affects behavior of cobreeder male acorn woodpeckers. Behavioral Ecology 32: 865-874. pdf
244. Koenig, W. D. 2021. A brief history of masting research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B376: 20200423. pdf
245. Koenig, W. D. , M. B. Pesendorfer, I. S. Pearse, and J. M. H. Knops. 2021. Budburst timing of valley oaks at Hastings Reservation, central coastal California. Madroño 68:434-442. pdf
246. Barve, S., C. Riehl, E. L. Walters, J. Haydock, H. L. Dugdate, and W. D. Koenig. 2021. Lifetime reproductive benefits of cooperative polygamy vary for males and females in the acorn woodpecer (Melanerpes formicivorus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20210579. pdf
247. Qiu, T., et al. 2021. Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 118: e2106130118. pdf
248. Sharma, S., et al. 2022. North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 119: e216691118. pdf
249. Hacket-Pain, A., J. J. Foest, I. S. Pearse, J. M. LaMontagne, W. D. Koenig, et al. 2022. MASTREE+: time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents. Global Change Biology 28: 3066-3082. pdf
250. Justino, M. A., N. D. G. Hagemeyer, M. T. Banik, J. M. Palmer, D. L. Lindner, M. E. Smith, W. D. Koenig, and E. L. Walters. 2022. Fungal communities associated with acorn woodpeckers and their excavations. Fungal Ecology 59: 101154 pdf
251. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 2022. Drivers of winter population cycles in the varied thrush Ixoreus naevius. Canadian Journal of Zoology 100: 607-613. pdf
252. Koenig, W. D., A. M. Liebhold, J. M. LaMontagne, and I. S. Pearse. 2022. Periodical cicada emergences affect masting behavior of oaks. American Naturalist 201: 755-762. pdf
253. Koenig, W. D., S. Barve, J. Haydock, H. L. Dugdale, M. K. Oli, and E. L. Walters. 2023. Lifetime inclusive fitness effects of cooperative polygamy in the acorn woodpecker. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 120: e2219345120. pdf
254. Halupka, L., et al. 2023. The effect of climate change on avian offspring: a global meta-analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 120: e2208389120. pdf
255. Hagemeyer, N.D.G., M. B. Pesendorfer, W. D. Koenig, and E. L. Walters 2023. Investigating the drivers of temporal occupancy-abundance relationships in a cooperatively breeding bird. Landscape Ecology (in press) pdf
News and Views-type articles
1. Koenig, W. D.
and J. Haydock. 2001. Dividing up the kids. Science 291: 442-443.
2. Dickinson, J. L. and W. D. Koenig. 2003. Desperately seeking similarity. Science 300: 1887-1889.
3. Koenig, W. D.
2005. Persistence in adversity: lessons from the ivory-billed woodpecker. BioScience 55: 646-647.
4. Koenig, W. D. and E. L. Walters. 2008. A tale of two worlds: molecular ecology and population structure of the threatened Florida scrub-jay. Molecular Ecology 17: 1632-1633.
5. Koenig, W. D. 2017. What drives cooperative breeding? PLoS Biology
General articles
1. Stacey, P.
B., and W. D. Koenig.
1984. Cooperative breeding in the acorn woodpecker. Scientific American 251(2): 114-121. Reprinted in: Behavior
and Evolution of Birds.
(D. W. Mock, ed.). W. H. Freeman, San Francisco.
2. Koenig.
W. D. 1988. La vie
communicataire chez les oiseaux. La Recherche (Paris) 19: 300-308.
3. Koenig,
W. D. 1990. Oaks,
acorns, and the acorn woodpecker. Fremontia 18: 77-79.
4. Koenig,
W. D. 1991. The acorn
woodpecker. Pp. 86-87 in Oaks of California (Written by B. M. Pavlik, P. C. Muick, S.
Johnson, and M. Popper). Cachuma Press, Los Olivos, CA.
5. Koenig,
W. D. 1992. [Defender of
granaries: the acorn woodpecker]. Animals on Earth (Asahi Encyclopedia,
weekly) 29: 137-139 [In
Japanese].
6. Koenig,
W. D. 1993. Acorn
woodpecker. Pp. 243-244 in The Marin County Breeding Bird Atlas: a
Distributional and Natural History of Coastal California Birds, by W. D. Shuford. Bushtit Books,
Bolinas, CA.
7. Koenig,
W. and J. Knops. 1995.
Acorn production in California. Oaks ‘n’ folks 10(1): 1-4.
8. Koenig,
W. D. and J. Knops.
1995. Why do oaks produce boom-and-bust seed crops? California Agriculture 49(5): 7-12.
9. Koenig,
W. D. and R. L. Mumme.
1997. The great egg-demolition derby. Natural History 106(5): 32-37.
10. Koenig, W.
and J. Knops. 1997. Geographical ecology of acorn production by California
oaks. Oaks ‘n’ folks
12(2): 6-7.
11. Koenig, W. D.
1998. ‘Cooperative breeding, evolution of’ (pp. 159-160) and ‘ecological
constraint hypothesis’ (p. 211) in The Encyclopedia of Ecology and
Environmental Management.
(P. Calow, editor-in-chief). Blackwell Publications, Oxford.
12. Kraaijeveld-Smit, F., and W. Koenig. 1998. Groepsgedrag van de Eikelspecht. Natura 1998(5): 140-141 [In Dutch].
13. Koenig, W. D.
2000. Oaks, acorns, and acorn woodpeckers. Oaks ‘n’ folks 15(1):5, 7.
14. Koenig, W. D.
and J. Haydock. 2002. Group sex in the acorn woodpecker: who comes out on top,
and why? The Biologist
49: 150-154.
15. Dickinson, J. L. and W. D. Koenig. 2002. Social behaviour. Encyclopaedia
Brittanica
16. Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 2005. The mystery of masting in trees. American
Scientist 93: 340-347.
17. Koenig,
W. D. 2006. A look at
Sudden Oak Death. BirdScope
20(2): 15.
18. Dickinson, J. L. and W. D. Koenig. 2015. Social behavior, animal. Encyclopaedia Brittanica online; htty://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/550897/animal-social-behaviour
19. Tietje, W. and W. Koenig. ND. Oaks, acorns, and acorn woodpecker. p. 8 in Wildlife among the oaks, written by S. G. Johnson with technical editing by W. D. Tietje. A publication of the Integrated Hardwoods Range Management Program
20. Koenig, W. 2011. Acorn woodpecker. p. 17 in The Monterey Pine Forest, by the monterey Pine Forest Watch. Pine Nut Press, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
21. Pearse, I. S. and W. D. Koenig. 2013. Acorns, acorns everywhere, but not in every year. International Oaks 24: 116-121.
22. Koenig, W. D. and J. L. Dickinson. 2014. Let's get together: the evolution of social behavior. Pp. 257-293 in Animal Behavior, vol. 2: Function and Evolution. K. Yasukawa, ed. Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA.
23. Koenig, W. D. 2016. Population biology. Pp. 495-534 in Handbook of Bird Biology, 3rd edition. I. Lovette and J. W. Fitzpatrick, eds. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY and Wiley, Hoboken, NJ.
24. Komdeur, J, and W. D. Koenig. 2016. Helpers and reproductive behavior in birds and mammals. In Elsevier Reference Module in Life Science, Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. M. D. Breed and J. Moore, eds.
25. Koenig, W. D., M. B. Pesendorfer, and J. M. H Knops. 2013. Evolutionary drivers, proximate mechanisms, and spatial synchrony of acorn production in oaks. International Oaks 28: 29-40. pdf
26. Koenig, W. D. 2019. Acorn production and California oaks in a changing world. International Oaks 30: 45-52. pdf
27. Koenig, W. D. 2022. The acorn count: unraveling the mystery of oak tree mast years and their copious acorn crops is a big numbers game (with some weather thrown in). Bay Nature 22(3): 32-36. pdf
Book reviews
1. Koenig,
W. D. 1983. Woodpeckers
of the World, by L. L.
Short. Wilson Bulletin
95: 698-700.
2. Koenig,
W. D. 1985. Perspectives
in Ornithology, edited
by A. H. Brush and G. A. Clark, Jr. American Scientist 73: 81-82.
3. Koenig,
W. D. 1985. The
Florida Scrub Jay: Demography of a Cooperative-breeding Bird, by G. E. Woolfenden and J. W.
Fitzpatrick. Animal Behaviour
33: 1402-1404.
4. Koenig,
W. D. 1986. The Life
of the Woodpecker, by A.
F. Skutch. Auk 103:
652-653.
5. Koenig,
W. D. 1987. Ecological
Aspects of Social Evolution,
edited by D. I. Rubenstein and R. W. Wrangham. Animal Behaviour 35: 1908-1909.
6. Koenig,
W. D. 1990. Reproductive
Success. Studies of Individual Variation in Contrasting Breeding Systems, edited by T. H. Clutton-Brock. Auk 107: 223-224.
7. Koenig,
W. D. 1991. Food
Hoarding in Animals, by
S. B. Vander Wall. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 4: 690.
8. Koenig,
W. D. 1993. The
Ostrich Communal Breeding System,
by B. C. R. Bertram. Condor
95: 762-763.
9. Koenig,
W. D. 1994. The
Natural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding, edited by N. W. Thornhill. Journal of Wildlife
Management 58: 797-798.
10. Koenig, W. D. 1996. Woodpeckers: a Guide to Woodpeckers of the World, by H. Winkler, D. A. Christie, and D.
Nurney. Auk 113:
726-727.
11. Wolff, J. O. and W. D. Koenig. 1997. Cooperative Breeding in Mammals, edited by N. G. Solomon and J. A.
French. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 12: 412-413.
12. Koenig, W. D. 1998. Made for Each Other, a Symbiosis of Birds and
Pines, by R. N. Lanner. Quarterly
Review of Biology 73:
100.
13. Koenig, W. D.
1999. Fairy-wrens and Grasswrens,
by I. Rowley and E. Russell. Quarterly Review of Biology 74: 88-89.
14. Koenig, W. D.
2000. Helpers at Birds’ Nests: a Worldwide Survey of Cooperative Breeding
and Related Behavior, by
A. F. Skutch. Auk
117: 273-274.
15. Koenig, W. D.
2000. Hope is the Thing with Feathers, by C. Cokinos. Condor 102: 963-964.
16. Koenig, W. D. 2002. Dispersal, edited by J. E. Danchin, A. A. Dhondt, and J. D. Nichols. Ecology 83: 879-880.
17. Koenig, W. D. 2002. The Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Surviving in a Fire-maintained Ecosystem, by R. N. Conner, D. C. Rudolph, and J. R. Walters. Animal Behaviour 63: 831-832.
18. Koenig, W. D. 2010. Wytham Woods: Oxford’s Ecological Laboratory,, edited by P. S. Savill, C. M. Perrins, K. J. Kirby, and N. Fisher. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 22: 813-814.
19. Koenig, W. D. and E. L. Walters. 2014. Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide, by G. Gorman. Journal of Field Ornithology 85: 435-436.
Obituaries
1. Koenig, W. D.
and P. W. Sherman. 2004. In Memoriam: Frank Alois Pitelka, 1916-2003. International
Society for Behavioral Ecology Newsletter 16: 4-5.
2. Koenig, W. D.
and P. W. Sherman. 2004. In Memoriam: Frank Alois Pitelka, 1916-2003. Auk 121: 963-965.
3. Koenig, W. D. 2007. In Memoriam: Howard L. Cogswell, 1915-2006. Auk 124: 1096.
4. Koenig, W. D. and P. P. Marra. 2014. In Memoriam: Russell S. Greenberg, 1953-2013. Auk 131: 255-256.
4. Davis, W. E., Jr. and W. D. Koenig. 2019. In Memoriam: Thomas W. Custer, 1945-2019. Auk 136(4): ukz004.
Films and CD-ROMs
1. 1995. Featured in a 30-minute film on the ecology and
social behavior of acorn woodpeckers produced by NHK, Japan, aired Oct. 1995.
2. 1997. Featured in Cal Alive! Exploring Biodiversity, an interactive educational CD-ROM about
California biodiversity produced by the California Institute for Biodiversity.
3. 1998. For a few acorns more. National Geographic Explorer Series;
produced and filmed by Oxford Scientific Films. 27 min film devoted to Koenig’s
study of acorn woodpeckers. Originally aired 29 March 1998.
4. 1999. The Life of Birds . BBC; short section on acorn storage by
acorn woodpeckers.
5. 2000. Birdwatch. PBS series; 9 min section on acorn woodpeckers and
Koenig’s study.
6. 2003. Natural Reserve System: Hastings Reservation. A UCTV production airing nationally over
cable TV featuring Hastings Reservation and including an extensive segment
focusing on Koenig’s study of acorn woodpeckers. First aired 3 Dec. 2003.
Available at http://www.uctv.tv/teachers/standards.asp?showID=8312
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Walter D. Koenig
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Bird Population Studies
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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